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Why are pit-stops allowed under safety car? In Abu Dhabi Hamilton as race leader was clearly disadvantaged by Verstappen being able to change tyres. Safety Car implies an incident Incident implies debris on track Debris on track often leads to punctures Pit lane has to be open really except in extr...

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What is wrong with the race ending under a SC? That suddenly seems like a big deal to people, the race was over. Done and dusted. Would it have been an anti climax if Latiffi did not crash and Hamilton won by 11 seconds too? The modern perception seems to be that it's "anti-climatic" and "not good ...

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EDIT: There is actually a third option, which would have resulted in a fair racing finish to the championship, albeit an irregular one that would not have been strictly in accordance with the rules. Throwing a red flag instead of a safety car when Latifi crashed would have forced a restart with all...

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We'll never know what would have happened if the result who pitted was inverted. Although if Hamilton had pitted then Max would have stayed out (ala Saudi) and we know for all Red Bull's "We just wanted to go racing" line they are spinning now that they would have been arguing how unfair it was to ...

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UnlikeUday wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 12, 2021 6:20 pm
Chris Medland has put this on Twitter:
DECISION: Protest dismissed regarding overtaking behind the Safety Car.

The FIA's "easy out" gone then, so it's going to be between Merc and FIA in the courts I suspect.

Don't be surprised if this is the beginning of the end of Merc's involvement in F1

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Could Merc walk away from the sport entirely over this?

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There's one other thing that bothers me about the SA race Why didn't Red Bull / Alpha Tuari pit Gasly on the last couple of laps to try and steal fastest lap off Hamilton? Yes he'd have lost positions, but he'd have remained in the top 10. Would have sucked for Pierre granted, but you could never p...

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There's one other thing that bothers me about the SA race Why didn't Red Bull / Alpha Tuari pit Gasly on the last couple of laps to try and steal fastest lap off Hamilton? Yes he'd have lost positions, but he'd have remained in the top 10. Would have sucked for Pierre granted, but you could never pr...

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Nonsense penalty IMO. Perfectly clear Verstappen was letting Hamilton by and not deliberately brake testing looking at both onboards. I was of that opinion but they’ve looked at the telemetry and penalised him. Pretty damming, he put 2.4g of force into the brakes when Lewis was immediately behind. ...

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If the number of race weekends goes down to a critical number, I would let them do two races per race weekend/track. Have a short 2020 season and go back to normal in 2021. What I don't like is the postponing of the new rules. They are also going to be pretty much the exact same cars, which I know ...

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Don't think I'd do a 2020 season, instead I'd do a 2020/2021 Super-season along the lines of 1.Singapore 2. Japan 3. COTA 4. Brazil 5. Abu-Dhabi -- 6. Australia 7. Vietnam 8. China 9. Spain 10. European GP - Imola 11. Baku 12. Monaco 13. Canada 14. France 15. UK 16. Germany 17. The Netherlands 18. A...

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Many thanks for finding that, the link is here: 2019 formula one sporting regulations - FIA https://i.ibb.co/ykpsn89/F1-events.png Source imgbb.com The interesting bit here is that the rule about 12 cars indicates that they can't cancel the race if only Ferrari and AT are unable to attend. It's not...

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If Vettel jacks it in and Hamilton jumps to Ferrari then *maybe* you can see a space at Mercedes for a couple of years (if you really squint) I guess at this point there's no harm in Alonso trying to get his name in the mix again I doubt it'll happen, but you never know Hamilton doesn't need Vettel...

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If Vettel jacks it in and Hamilton jumps to Ferrari then *maybe* you can see a space at Mercedes for a couple of years (if you really squint)

I guess at this point there's no harm in Alonso trying to get his name in the mix again

I doubt it'll happen, but you never know

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The thing I'd change at the moment is not give it to leaders following back markers. They already have blue flags to help them through, there's no need for DRS as well It'd create more opportunity to challenge the leader by the car behind At the moment any traffic negates the DRS advantage the chall...

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It's not the 1st time we're seeing Red Bull screw with a driver's F1 career. I just hope fo God's sake, Albon delivers otherwise Marko will think of some audacious move before 2020 & ruin Albon's career. Gasly was underperforming no doubt but it's true he was probably not ready for the promotion, w...

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If only F1 could be like this every race weekend! Shazam! https://wtf1.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/f1-sprinklers-paul-ricard-700.jpg https://wtf1.com/post/7-craziest-ideas-bernie-try-improve-f1/ That, or rework the entire calendar schedule to maximize the chances of rain in the host country

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Not radical perhaps, but I'd remove DRS from front runners gaining on back-markers to lap them Currently where there is a close battle between the leaders, the leader gets DRS when following a back-marker which can effectively negate the DRS advantage of the car chasing him Blue flags are enough, th...

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I'm sure others have made he same comparison, but if you overlay this incident onto the chicane in Monoco after they go through the tunnel & down the hill - if Vettel had cut the chicane there, re-entered the track and squeezed Hamilton into the wall to retain his position it'd have been a penalty &...

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There are some elevation changes though that's not apparent from the overhead map BBC have a 3D rendering of the lap There are actually some bits that feel quite similar to Interlagos The track drops downhill from the first corner, it's not as much of a drop as Interlagos but it has a similar feel T...

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Thing is that they've backed themselves into a corner with the "Sky Sports F1" name - probably at the behest of Bernie or to keep him sweet. If they'd gone for something like "Sky MotorSports" then it would have given them more flexibility. Yes they do so GP2 and GP3 on the channel but that's (usual...

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woah ho :o :D , this is gonna be good-max on the podium, can't see a way back for kvyat I dont know - depends how Kvyat handles things and develops. Look at Grosjean and what happened with him after his first F1 stint. He went back to GP2 and eventually came back to F1 a better driver. At least Kav...

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It'd be sad to see Sauber disappear. Any chance of the Alfa-Romeo rumour happening?
If it did it'd be nice if they kept the Sauber name as part of the team name like BMW did in their time in charge.

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The racing is only "broken" because one team has a massive advantage and the rules have conspired to allow them to maintain that without too much fear of a challenge. Looking to tweak the rules to target one particular team is not the answer. Rather they should be encouraging others to close the ga...

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Hoping they will keep on Ben Edwards- quite liked his commentary! Also Mcneesh was pretty cool. DC in the commentary box would be awesome. Was not a big fan of Suzy Perry but honestly at this stage I don't really care about the presenters. I have high hopes that C4 will have a great coverage of F1,...

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James Allen is vastly better on 5Live than his ITV days. In fairness to him ITV really wanted him to push the British talent and make a fuss of them so he was only doing what he was told. It's also often forgotten, than prior to Murry retiring, Allen was the pit lane reporter for ITV and set the mou...

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For what it's worth, Lee McKenzie is working the BBC 6 Nations coverage today.
Read from that what you will, but the 6 Nations runs up to, and includs the weekend of the Australian GP

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Huffington Post tonight reporting that Eddie Jordan is all but confirmed to join the Top Gear reboot.
I'm presuming, if true, that would likely rule him out of C4's F1 plans.

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Pleased that Coulthard is going to be in it. After his initial years as a mouthpiece for Red Bull he's matured immensely as a presenter and is as good as Brundle now. Disappointed that Jake Humphrey will be behind the camera rather than in front of it. He was oodles better than Suzy P, although to ...

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With car launches starting to happen and testing only a few weeks away it's a bit disappointing that C4 don't have a F1 website up yet. Surely they could get a bare bones site and bring in some freelance F1 writers to do articles on the major stories. I know the contract landed on them at the last m...

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Suzi Perry did close the Abu Dhabi Coverage saying something like "we'll see you next year we hope ". Since then I've felt that it was far from guaranteed that the BBC would cover 2016, so I'm not really surprised by this rumour. If true, I hope ITV can bring Ben Edwards, David Coulthard and Lee McK...

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I can't believe people suggested Rosberg should have let Vettel past. He has his pride ffs. Remember he disobeyed a team order to park it in Abu Dhabi when he was 13th, had no ERS and was a lap down because he wanted to finish. Besides, finishing 3rd in the title in the best car really isn't a good...

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But it wouldn't have kept the championship alive for him, though. He'd be too far behind no matter what so I don't see what would motivate him to allow Seb to pass when Lewis was in the lead. That would just seem like an act of spite against his team mate After doing the maths yeah you're right, ev...

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But it wouldn't have kept the championship alive for him, though. He'd be too far behind no matter what so I don't see what would motivate him to allow Seb to pass when Lewis was in the lead. That would just seem like an act of spite against his team mate After doing the maths yeah you're right, ev...

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With Nico, I get the impression that he has holds a very deep seated trepidation of Lewis and his ability, more so than any other driver - it's all in the the recesses of the mind! He seems perfectly capable of holding off all the other drivers, but in situations where Lewis is breathing down his n...

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Last few laps last night I was expecting Rosberg to let Vettel through just to spite Hamilton and keep the Championship alive. Sure he would have thrown away a 1-2 finish for the team, but at least he'd have kept things going, as you never know when someone's luck might turn. If it was the other way...

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Good to know Im not the only with my imagination running wild. Alonso's confirmation or rejection at Mclaren seems to be the last real chance of an interesting silly season. Oh I dont know about that - if Red Bull and Toro Ross do pull out, there could be a scramble for places from those 4 drivers ...

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Torro ... Hass Why do so so many people think it's "Torro" and "Hass"? Toro, Haas. Anyway I don't see why Manor is looking like it will become a Merc development driver team. Just going for a Merc PU these days gets you the status of Merc development driver team? Apologies if my spelling's not up t...

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If Red Bull / Torro Rosso pulled out I could see Mclaren/Honda buying Torro Rosso as a B team, either bringing back the Minardi name or maybe the "Project 4" name. Red Bull / Torro Rosso seems to have started a trend - Hass is going to be effectively a Ferrari B Team, looks like Manor is going to be...

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I'm not really convinced by that argument because it doesn't seem to have taken long for Ferrari to catch up with their engine. Yes but that's not really the point, Honda shows how difficult it is to come in later and catch up. Now maybe they did a rubbish job of it and perhaps not, but either way ...

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